SNCF, former Prussian (KPEV) G8-1 0-8-0 No 040.D.72 is about to be un-coupled from the 05.38 train from Dunkirk which it has brought from Lille. This train conveyed the through Wagon Lit sleeping ... (more)

Belgian Railways streamlined 4-4-2 No 12.003 has just arrived at Tournai with a train from Brussels. Just six of these unusual locomotives were built by Cockerill and were delivered in 1939. No 12... (more)

Belgian Railways three-cylinder 4-6-0 No 62.004 at Brussels Midi shed. This was a war reparations loco and was originally Prussian (KPEV) S10-2 No 1204 Cöln. Fifth-teen of these engines were hande... (more)

Dawn has just broken as former Nord Railway Pacific No 231.C.17 from the first batch of so called Super Pacifics built in 1923-24 appears to be making an odd manoeuvre at the Dunkirk-Ferry station... (more)

One of the Prussian G8-1 class of 0-8-0s given to the French railways as war reparations after the end of World War I, SNCF 040.D.21 rests at La Délivrance depot, Lille during an RCTS visit. Origi... (more)

Another of Chapelon's masterpieces, Pacific No 231 E 11 in ex-works condition, is shunted on to the turntable at La Délivrance depot by an equally pristine 151TQ 0-8-0T during an RCTS visit. Photo... (more)

One of the famed Chapelon Nord Pacifics, No 231 E 24, has just un-coupled from an express from Paris Nord and runs forward before reversing over the scissors crossover to the loco depot. Passenger... (more)

DB driving trailer No VB147 053 leads a couple of old four-wheeled carriages which are propelled by a V36 diesel-hydraulic 0-6-0 shunter out of Köln Deutz on a service to Köln Hbf from possibly Ho... (more)

DB V200.0 diesel-hydraulic No V200 035 at Cologne Deutzerfeld depot flanked by class 78 4-6-4T No 78 094 on the left and class 03 Pacific No 03 245 on the right in May 1957. Photograph by Lawrence... (more)

One of the prototype DB V200.0 diesel-hydraulic prototype locos, No V200 001 built by Krauss Maffei that entered service in 1954, is seen at an unknown location in its early days. (photographer un... (more)